{"id":116235,"date":"2026-01-13T11:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116235\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:09:18","slug":"orlando-pirates-loanee-shines-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116235\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Pirates loanee shines in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On-loan Bucs star impresses abroad<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e30eecd22bcce30a98fa0f3a08490706.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Karim Kimvuidi<\/p>\n<p>Orlando Pirates loanee Karim Kimvuidi was on the scoresheet as his team, FC Ashdod, were thumped 5-2 by Kiryat Shmona in the Ligat Ha&#8217;Al.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old utility player signed for the Israeli Premier League outfit on a season-long loan in August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Ashdod have an option to make Kimvuidi&#8217;s stay permanent as they retain a club option of three years, provided the Congolese forward continues to impress.<\/p>\n<p>The former DR Congo U23 international has scored three goals and laid a solitary assist in 13 matches across all competitions in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kimvuidi&#8217;s team is on a nine-game winless run in the league and sit 11th in the 14-team championship.<\/p>\n<p>Ashdod look set to play the relegation play-offs contested by the last eight teams in the league and they face bottom-placed Maccabi Bnei Reineh on Saturday, 17 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On-loan Bucs star impresses abroad Photo: Karim Kimvuidi Orlando Pirates loanee Karim Kimvuidi was on the scoresheet as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[58676,269,58674,58675,58677,139,141,140,10336],"class_list":{"0":"post-116235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-fc-ashdod","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-israeli-premier-league","11":"tag-karim-kimvuidi","12":"tag-kiryat-shmona","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-headlines","15":"tag-orlando-news","16":"tag-orlando-pirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}